How to invest when everything is moving too fast
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Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)
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Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK’s AI ecosystem by 2028 end (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
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IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029 (Reuters)
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AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan’s chip industry to expand partnerships and advanced chip packaging for AI, and begins making its next-gen Venice chips (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
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Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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Thrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can’t be replicated by AI (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports. The Alphabet subsidiary is committing to invest $10 billion now,…
Anthropic says Google is committing to invest $10B now in cash at a $350B valuation and will invest another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets (Bloomberg)
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As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere’s Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
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